Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having scored a direct hit on McCarthy's "foreign policy," Dwight Eisenhower opened fire on the Gibraltar of McCarthy's political arsenal, the suspicion that Communists will continue to hold Government jobs. Said the President: "Fear of Communists' actively undermining our Government will not be an issue in the 1954 elections. Long before then, this Administration "will have made such progress in rooting them out ... that this can no longer be considered a serious menace...
...freshman, agreeing with the Dean's stand, added ammunition to the ascetics' arsenal by writing: "It seems some people are more interested in the superficial outward graces that make up the educated Charlie and future man of the world. The ability to balance a drink at a party and be able to name a good scotch are very possibly attributes which every Charlie should know, but this is not the education that Princeton offers the applicant...
...revolutionaries are relentless, "experimenting with variations of designs they're thinking about" 24 hours a day. Their arsenal id technologically advanced, functional and efficient." It is subject to change at any moment. The instigators "kick it around a little," but "don't even own some of it." Many of the weapons are wood, others light metal, and the rest a combination of both. Some of it is even on wheels...
...modern times by Economist Friedrich Hayek). Heilbroner predicts that economics will diminish somewhat as an influence on human affairs, and that morals and politics will reassert themselves more strongly. Capitalism's big problem, he feels, is not really economic, but political-the "problem of establishing itself as the arsenal, not only of production, but also of hope and meaningful freedom to the anonymous hundreds of millions who may otherwise distrust us [and] take arms against...
...Bone Hill, the Reds built an arch of evergreen boughs, invited the G.I.s to "come on over and we will walk through the arch as brothers." At Arsenal Hill. Chinese banged pans, shuffled through the Yangko (harvest dance), while a man's voice, in good English, boomed over the loudspeaker: "Hello, G.I. The war is over. Let's sing together My Old Kentucky Home. I'll give you the beat first." Nobody took him up, so he sang alone...